we have endeavored to strengthen the u n and make it the main body for dialogue and peace and for security and for the application of international law and, in particular, international law. we know full well that today the world is facing challenges which have threatened the very existence and viability of humankind. the first challenge is the current economic crisis and the urgent need to promote global development as well as trade and growth with job creation. this is a problem which has brought crisis to entire populations and which have prevented developing nations from overcoming their shortcomings in terms of poverty, illiteracy, as you know, mexico this year in 2012, we became a chairman of the g-20. our mission is very clear. we had to reconcile apparently opposing interests of the emerging countries and developed countries. as many of you know, in the previous meeting of the g-20, we were not able to make as much progress as we wanted in adopting measures to react to the international economy. that is why the mexican chairmanship decided to work hard to build a much broader conse